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The AdMuncher solution has been posted on their forum like 30 minutes after Google Chrome was released :http://www.admuncher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3881

And since then, it has been added on the AdMuncher default filters list.

"And it couldn't import more than about 10 percent of my IE favorites. A buddy had a similar complaint about his Firefox bookmarks."
Wow. This must be a very rare problem, 'cause I didn't even see it mentioned in the main Google Chrome forum :http://chromespot.com/

I disagree with this post. I love google chrome because its just a browser. Simple interface unlike IE and firefox. Why do people need all these plugins and add-ons? I hope google just fixes the bugs and not change the browser.

Steve, I'm with ya on Chrome. I downloaded it, used it for a few days & I'm back with my "old standby", Maxthon.

Chrome, for me, did not function properly on Facebook, it balked when I tried to download a .pdf attachment, & it seemed to get bogged down the longer I used it.

I've still yet to see a browser top the look & feel of Maxthon.

I Instantly got all my bookmarks transferred without a hitch. I see some sites very slow loading, but most all sites are almost instant. I am pounding the hell out of it. It will be great when it is able to handle roboform and the other necessaties. I still use FF3 as my main browser, though.
I think it will slap the rest of them down, eventually.

yes i tried chrome and yes i am standing with it. its clean its fast and yes its definitely cool.When users said they had problems with chrome about getting the bookmarks ,it surprised me .Even as you said that it does not have the drag and drop facility as in maxthon i found it confusing because it did allow me to drag a link and drop in a tab although it opened the link in a different tab.

yes chrome has to go very far ,yes Firefox is still the best but has some very genuine innovations like its search and address bar combo or the back key with different reactions to different kinds of clicks. i suppose with a little tweaking chrome would soon be topping the charts

I tried it and ditched it as soon as I had to log in to a few sites without roboform. As of the last articles I read on this problem, no one is planning to try to integrate it. (???)
Chrome is a great idea with real promise, but I'd be surprised if it lures many folks away from Firefox. FF just has so much flexibility. It's tough to beat.

I would not go so far... I wish Chrome could simply let me use one of the simplest features browsers have had for a long time now: hit the space bar to click some dialogs default buttons... =)

I am glad Google is addressing the "Not Responding" problem when browsers get stuck on a script or a page load and refuse even to let the user halt the process, usually a bug they need to get around to fixing.
I am more concerned with using a browser that adheres to rendering content according to the STANDARDS of (X)HTML and not to catering to non-standards "extensions" or misuse and abuse of (X)HTML. Microsoft has been notorious for this, but its past dominance in the browser market share has forced developers to structure web pages that deal with Microsoft's idiosyncrasies with respect to document structure and styling, which explains the mess of HTML, DOM methods, and CSS specific to rendering in IE and then to rendering for the rest. Only recently have browsers passed fully the tests for content rendering specified by W3 Consortium, the keepers of the "recommendations" (standards, to you and me), and still don't pass the simple "acid tests" of the Web Standards zealots.
For someone who also writes dynamic content like myself, I will want Chrome to deal with ECMAscript and AJAX without a lot of fuss. Your review is an important part of determining how much time I will spend in evaluation and switching HTTP clients.

Too bad internet providers are going to hinder the whole idea of "Cloud Computing" (and many other future advancements) because they are wanting to limit bandwidth....it's so...90's

Bad use of statistics here: 60% of the responders in your poll tried Chrome and every one of them switched back? An unknown percentage of the responders tried Chrome and 60% of them switched back? Or am I missing another possible interpretation.
Of course the Net Applications statistic is faulty in its own way: Chrome representing 1% of all Internet usage on a day when it's the Internet's new toy is not only fairly meaningless, but should be a grave disappointment to Google.

Separate processes per tab is definitely nice only you don't know which one is the failing one. I have had problems with pdf's but after I updated my adobe reader it reads and "runs" faster. I watch the doppler constantly through noaa and need java for the loops. I installed the java beta 10 RC off Sun's site, and works.. It still studders during loading of java but i'm using two beta's together. I like the "full screen", the popup status bar as I need a lot of info from there for tracking. As far as my bookmarks in IE and FF it imported all of them. I don't have many anyways as they are on my quicklaunch to use whatever browser I have set as default at the time. I like how Chrome makes bookmarks, most used pages on a new tab(why need 100's of bookmarks) and the overall simplicity of the program. If it's this usable in it's beta form. Can't wait for the first final release. I already love it! James Mac nomoreinterviews@gmail.com fixya.com earncashsleeping.ws

"Cloud Computing" sounds a bit like the old days when we used "thin clients" and terminals. Are we ready to embrace "internet appliances" yet?

Chrome is in beta. There should be a lot of additions, changes, and bug fixes by the time the production version is released. In the meantime, I did some side-by-side comparisons opening web pages on Chrome, IE7 and Firefox, and Chrome was faster opening almost every web page, sometime much faster. The Chrome start page with a display of the most popular/most recent sites visited is a wonderful, very useful feature.
There's a very irritating bug when selecting text on a web page. Often you can't use the mouse; for example, if the cursor is one location and you try to select text in a different part of the web page it make the selection in the original location.
Printing is rudimentary. Text often prints "off the edge of the paper", there's no print preview, and no way to print selected text or a single frame instead the entire web page.
There are some CSS and rendering bugs in Chrome that are also in Safari. That's because Chrome is built on the same engine as Safari. For example, borders are sized incorrectly, and CSS attributes for the hr tag are ignored (as they are in Safari).
IMO, Chrome is a wait-and-see browser.
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You can get WOT ratings of the current site in Google Chrome (or other "unsupported" browsers) by using the bookmarklet on this page:

http://www.mywot.com...afari-and-opera

And here's a variant I just wrote that gives you both WOT and McAfee Site Advisor ratings popping up above the web page (create a bookmark and edit it to set its URL to the following -- I wasn't able to make this into a proper link here):

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I tried Chrome for all of five minutes, hated it .